Red Rocks - Thurs March 9 to Thurs March 16.

We got snowed on in Vegas. WTF?

Snow is better than Rain. And when you have good group of friends to drink a margarita with, it doesn't matter anyway.

We did one route on the Solar Slab wall. Don't know the name - three pitches of 5.9-ish stuff up and right from Solar Slab. We approached via Solar Slab Gulley.

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